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One of the proposals for harnessing solar energy is to put solar panels in space. Either orbiting the Earth, or stationed on the moon, light waves could be converted into microwaves that pass through the atmosphere without losing any energy, then on to electricity on the ground. What I'm...

How do time-energy uncertainty and special relativity's rules about observers seeing time different for each other interact? Heisenberg's uncertainty principal applies to time and energy: a system existing for a short duration of time has more uncertainty in its energy than one that exists...